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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Michael Harty: I will let the Deputy in a second time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Michael Harty: I seek clarification on Deputy Brassil's question. In normal circumstances, when a woman presents to a GP or another smear taker because she is concerned about the delay in obtaining a smear test result through the system, she may be referred to the private service to have the smear taken. The result normally comes back to the GP or the smear taker who acts on the result by referring the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Michael Harty: Deputy Brassil is referring to a case in which a colposcopy referral was made but the referral was not accepted because it concerned a smear that had been taken privately.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Michael Harty: I call Deputy Kelly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Michael Harty: I thank Deputy Kelly and I call Mr. McCallion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Michael Harty: To return to an issue raised by me, Senator Colm Burke and Deputy Brassil regarding private smears entering the system, could the witnesses supply the committee with all the circulars relating to that, including the initial circular suggesting that public smear results should be prioritised over private ones and the recent circular rescinding that recommendation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Michael Harty: Deputy Durkan raised the issue of the laboratory in Manchester. How many cytopathology screeners were in that laboratory?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Michael Harty: In her opening statement Dr. Duff said "In November 2016, MedLab contacted INAB by email, proposing to hire a cytology screening employee - a cytoscreener - and to locate that person at its laboratory in Manchester." Will the witnesses expand on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Michael Harty: Are there different levels of qualification for staff who would look at smear slides?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Michael Harty: Is it up to each individual laboratory to be satisfied that those whom they employ are properly accredited?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Michael Harty: It does not come back to CervicalCheck to check this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Michael Harty: CervicalCheck would not have been aware of the existence of those people until 2019.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Michael Harty: If the HSE and CervicalCheck had been aware of the existence of the Manchester laboratory would it have checked on the competency of the individual screeners? Would this have been part of the brief?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Michael Harty: We need to move on. There will be an opportunity to come in on a second occasion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Michael Harty: One final question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Michael Harty: We have been here for two and a half hours and I am obliged to offer delegates an opportunity to take a break for ten minutes, if they wish to avail of it before we move to the second round of questioning. Are they happy to continue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Michael Harty: Before I bring in Deputy Brassil for the second round of questions, I would like to ask some of my own. On Quest Diagnostics now being involved in 90% of screenindg, is that a substantial risk to the service because if anything happens to it, the cervical screening programme will be in serious trouble. How is that risk being managed? Is Quest Diagnostics involved in HPV testing, in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Michael Harty: Does CervicalCheck have a timeline for its introduction?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Michael Harty: I ask Deputy Brassil to come to his second round of questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)
Michael Harty: Before we move on, regarding Sharon's case, which was the basis of the MacCraith report, one of her problems in respect of communication was that she had her smear test before Christmas. When she had not received her results by the beginning of April, she contacted CervicalCheck. It did not communicate with her despite her making several contacts with it. It was only when she threatened to...